🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?

🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them?

💭 If you could wish into creation a transformative piece for your story, made by a real human who isn’t you, what would it be? Art, video, sequel, podfic, etc.

🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most? So because this one was, I want to say deliberately not planned at least in part (because my last big AU project was and I was feeling really awful about that project when I started Gold Cages) I didn’t really have scenes planned, though I will say there’s a moment coming up I am thinking about that delights me.

🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them? I mostly do let them just like Do The Thing with this one (I did deliberately set out to just enjoy myself with this one - to not think about it too much and just go with what delighted me). I will say oh my gosh Freyja. Did not plan or expect her and she just arrived and started chattering happily.

💭 If you could wish into creation a transformative piece for your story, made by a real human who isn’t you, what would it be? Art, video, sequel, podfic, etc. I am so so spoiled and honoured already by the people who have written fic in this verse (oh my gosh @kenobiwaned @plotdesigner (who is the entire reason that Adar is in this verse at all) @themalhambird (and you obviously) being the best friends/collaborators) and the gorgeous gorgeous art from @seagull-energy but I do have an art wishlist for Gold Cages here. And I would adore any kind of fic or art people would be inspired to make for this verse. I WOULD. (Actually a fanmix with track notes would also be INCREDIBLE. Gif edits = would actually PERISH). OH ALSO. I have such vivid images of Celebrian in the Gold Cages x Hidden Flowers fusion (I might even try to draw her myself) but I would love love to see that art.

🗡️ What’s their “I’ve killed for less” trigger?

🧸 Do they still have a childhood comfort object? Where is it now?

🌹 What scent reminds them of the person they loved/love most?

🎁 What gift would utterly destroy them (in a good / bad way)?

(For fusion! celebrian (I have been thinking about the uncorrupted mairon variant of fusion celebrian but that one is entirely optional)?)

🗡️ What’s their “I’ve killed for less” trigger?

The word "whore". I think that stands for Fusion and variant. Even before she had to deal with Sauron, she hated the word, because of everything that her father/fathers had suffered on her behalf. It was made even worse because she was so helpless to do anything about it. Post escape, it's just Kill Bill sirens everytime she hears it. She and Gil-Galad take turns reminding one another to scream into a pillow, because they can't go around killing every asshole. They're actually pretty good at switching off who gets to be the angry one and who has to be the responsible one.

Actual footage of Cel and Gilly in the meetings of Elven Lords:

People telling her how to dress. This one doesn't come up often post escape, but maybe once she is Lady of Imladris, people think that they need to advise her on how a high-born lady ought to comport herself. 

🧸 Do they still have a childhood comfort object? Where is it now?

That's a hard one, because she technically didn't own anything from the the time of their captivity in Rhun until they all escaped Sauron.

Pre-Rhûnic capture (I headcanon that they were taken when she was around two years old). She might have had a little spinning light projector made with colored glass that has a candle (or maybe a glowing gem) as a light-source. Celebrimbor it made for Galadriel during her pregnancy. Baby Celebrían loved to see the stars dance around her cradle.

After they disappeared, Galadriel locked it in a chest with all of Celebrían’s things and couldn't bear to look at it again.

In the variant, Mairon provides the prismatic light, and though she has no concious memory of her first years, she finds it incredibly soothing, even when she's an adult.

One of the unexpectedly hard things about being held by Sauron is that it takes her forever to fall asleep. So Mairon mentions it to Celebrimbor, who realizes that this is a project that won't actually give him a panic attack. He makes her a second projector (luckily, Sauron thinks that it's cute and nobody mentions how Mairon used prismatic light to help her sleep in Rhûn). While it's not quite the same as Atya helping her fall asleep, she is incredibly touched by the gesture.  

🌹 What scent reminds them of the person they loved/love most?

Elrond constantly smells like Niphredil flowers. He's just like that™. Even when he's sweaty and disgusting after a battle, he smells like them.

Celebrían took to wearing the scent as a perfume when Sauron had them to disguise how much time she spends with Elrond. Not to mention the proximity she has with him.

She explains to Sauron that "I"m trying to be a proper lady, just like you wanted. Perfume is a lady-like thing, right? I picked the best smelling thing that I could find." Sauron can't really argue, because his little bird *does* smell fantastic.

🎁 What gift would utterly destroy them (in a good / bad way)?

In a good way: Elrond has a surprise writing studio built for her in Imladris. With locks on the inside, lots of open windows, and light. Everyone in Rivendell knows it's the one place where you REALLY have to knock.  😏

In a bad way. If Sauron starts sending baby-toys/clothes once the twins and Arwen are born. That would be devistating for her. The first time one of them shows up on the borders of Imladris, she has a full-blown panic attack and (barely) sleeps in the nursery for over a month.

As a side note, Pharazôn gifts her a nightgown. Ostensibly as an "engagement present". It isn't devistating, but she is extremely skeeved out because, "Sir, my marriage with YOUR SON has just been arranged."